Cultural Developer, Collections

Creative City Network of Canada; Halifax Regional Municipality; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Halifax Regional Municipality is inviting applications for one permanent full-time Cultural Developer, Collections in the Strategic Planning and Design division of Parks & Recreation. The role focuses on engaging communities and building strong programs.

The incumbent will coordinate care of artifact and public art collections, maintain databases, and help design new services while applying expertise in facilitation, mobilization, and heritage knowledge.

Qualifications

• Expert in facilitating participatory processes and community engagement.
• Ability to mobilize stakeholders and build inclusive programs.
• Strong process design skills for program development and delivery.
• Experience in managing art and artifact collections within public institutions.
• Knowledge of museum policy, heritage practices, and curatorial concepts.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care and control of HRM artifact and public art collections.
• Coordinate condition assessment and maintenance of HRM artifact and public art collections.
• Maintain and update all collection databases and Asset Register.
• Implement HRM Cultural strategies and engagement.

Skills

Facilitation

Community building

Mobilization

Process design

Collections management

Museum policy

Job description

Halifax Regional Municipality is inviting applications for one (1) Permanent full-time position of Cultural Developer, Collections in the Strategic Planning and Design division of Parks & Recreation.

Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) is committed to reflecting the community it serves and recognizing Diversity and Inclusion as one of the Municipality’s core values. We have an Employment Equity Policy and we welcome applications from African Nova Scotians and Other Racially Visible Persons, Women in occupations or positions where they are underrepresented in the workforce, Indigenous/Aboriginal People, Persons with Disabilities and 2SLGBTQ+ Persons. Applicants are encouraged to self-identify on their electronic application.

Cultural Developers are responsible for engaging, mobilizing, organizing, and building strong communities. Cultural Developers help the community identify their goals and find the means to achieve them, while leading processes to stimulate local action on a participatory and sustained basis, and assisting sectors working toward improved social, cultural, economic development, and quality of life conditions. Cultural Developers are experts at assisting community and cultural sectors, and at gathering and evaluating information and using it to inform the design and delivery of new programs and services, or to improve existing constructs.

The Cultural Developer will be a highly skilled expert in facilitation, mobilization, community building, and process design. They will have expertise in one or more of the following strategic focus areas and knowledge and experience in others: collections management and museum policy, engagement, public arts and artifact conservation, public systems and process design, organizational development, interpretive development, heritage, and curatorial expertise.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coordinate care and control of HRM artifact and public art collections.


• Coordinate condition assessment and maintenance of HRM artifact and public art collections.


• Maintain and update all collection databases and Asset Register.


• Implement HRM Cultural strategies and engagement.

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